The Old Tram Road - On the doorstep

For the last 14 years our route to the Old Tram Road has involved a 20 minute walk along busy roads or cutting through the old derelict Lostock Hall Gas Works.  Finally, the new link Road is open to pedestrians and this weekend we wandered over the bridge, down the tram road to Factory Lane, and enjoyed a stroll around Walton Park.  It was so odd to walk along roads and paths that have felt so far away!  It’s like two communities of dog walkers have merged in to one 😊

Other than local walks, we’ve had a good trip to the beach at St Anne’s, plenty of trips to Lytham Green and of course Saturday visits to dog training club.  Marley is still very excitable, but maybe a little calmer week by week.  Tonight I was confident enough to walk with headphones in, one of life’s little pleasures, for the first time in our walking together history!

Hopefully we will get a few decent walks in over the next month or so, after which we might be on the move. Very exciting.

Summer’s gone

Summer has gone and this week we had our first frost!  Been a busy summer, things on most weekends and also another week away in September.  Walks have been mainly local, with plenty of visits to our local park, a few trips to the beach and of course lots of weekends at Worden.  Oddly enough we’ve not been on the moors for months.  We had a day up in the Lakes, where Marley dragged me up Orrest Head which was nice, followed by a walk around Tarn Hows with mum and my sister.  Mostly though summer was about training, continuing to work on loose lead walking and learning to trust him off lead (only when it’s quiet!). We then had a bit of a disastrous period following his neutering, where he was out of action for a few weeks.  Happily we still managed to ge5 down to Cornwall in September, staying near the stunning Cape Cornwall.

Now I’m looking forward to autumn weekends, a few trips to the woods or beach and hopefully a dog who continues to get a little bit calmer. My main mission remains to stop reactivity to kids, birds and bikes but hopefully have some fun with it.